⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 4 stars

Heartstopper: Volume One is the first graphic novel in the Heartstopper series starring Nick and Charlie, who get to know each other after they are put in a form together at their high school.

Honestly, it was just a very sweet book. You just breeze through it without noticing it. It felt like I had just started reading it five minutes before and it was already over. The art was really complementary to the story and it just fit perfectly.

Charlie and Nick are both just very sweet characters. I really liked how you could follow the development from strangers, to friends to more. I especially loved how supportive Nick was as both a friend and a teammate to Charlie. I also really liked how Charlie was comfortable with being gay and had how the story wasn’t focused on him coming to terms with his sexuality. You could see Nick questioning his, and I would’ve liked to see a bit more of that.

I loved how the story progressed, but it just felt really short and ending in a cliffhanger. I would’ve liked the story to be a bit longer, the cliffhanger I didn’t mind.

As I am not English, I’m not known with the school years the boys are in and the corresponding ages, since they're different from my own high school years in The Netherlands. I honestly thought both boys were at least sixteen years old and was surprised when I found out at the end that Charlie is only fourteen!

Overall, I really liked it and can’t wait to get my hands on the other volumes!